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i can't stop babbeling about it, i'm giddy. it was SO GOOD. Fuck the 1st one, good. Don't know if i could watch the first one again good. and Storm was watchable! and Nighcrawler was amazing and funny! and Pyro blew shit up! and Logan sliced and diced more guys than i can count! and it was an actual rollercoaster ride, for real. I actually cared about the charaters and my heart was really going a couple times. That's never happened before. And their was real tension and some really great parts and moments that i'm dying to talk about but can't because it will ruin things, goddamnit, but it was really really good, better than Spiderman or anything like that. But honestly their was tension that you could feel, and some parts with one tragic character that were extremely sad and also creepy as hell. How did they get emotions out of me in a comic book movie? People were clapping all the time. Most of a action scenes were wicked and not overdone like usual. So many characters, all so good! Mystique wasn't a side character anymore, she was there all the time, really strong n all that. Pyro was great to watch and etc. etc. And the teasing of other characters for later was unfair, but necissary. I'm trying to shut up now. yeah! |
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wisper, did you catch all of the foreshadowing of the next movie? |
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And things i knew from my comic nerd housemate, i'm sure he'll tell me way more than i want to know. He's why i already know so much about League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, which seems exciting to me already, although i could already find major flaws just in the trailer. what a wicked book. |
the story was predictably disappointing hollywood fare. i still hate movie theaters, especially sold out theaters. it was good. |
the screaming girl is Siryn Beast doesnt appear in his blue hairy form, but he is on TV discussing mutants with his real name "Hank McCoy" on screen... Gambit also does a fake cameo, as on Strykers database, when the screen freezes for a couple seconds you can see "Remy LeBeau", which is Gambits real name |
I haven't seen X2 yet...I'll try to this week. |
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You also saw Jubilee twice this time and once in the first one, but she never does anything. |
Well, no, but I saw X2 this weekend. Awesome. The opening sequence with Nightcrawler was indescribably cool. Loved the brimstone. I'm still not 100% sold on Ian McKellan as Magneto. Magneto is supposed to be really tall, really muscular, snow-white-haired (yeah yeah yeah...I know it's a comic)....simply radiant with physical power and intimidation. IM is just too slight a figure. True, they make him display his badass skills with great confidence and ruthlessness, which goes a long way, but...still, you know? Magneto is my favorite Marvel character ever, and I want him to be translated to the screen as best as possible. (Though I did give up reading the comics around 1994 or so, so I've missed a lot of character changes. Supposedly, he became good, hooked up with Rogue, had a child with her, and is now dead. Whaaaa-?? If that's true, I'm glad I quit when I did.) So, clearly the Phoenix saga will be the main story of the next movie. I wonder how much detail the movie will get into. When is Rogue going to meet Ms. Marvel to steal her powers? Is the Mystique-Nightcrawler-Rogue familial connection ever going to be mentioned? Will the Hellfire Club show up? WILL WE GET TO SEE GAMBIT AND PSYLOCKE? So many questions. |
I am going to be the last sorabjiite that wants to see this movie who actually gets to see it.... |
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Besides, I think the last movie Eri and I went to see (lotr The Two Towers) was one for me. It's eri's turn |
One more marvel cameo: Also in the database scene, on the screen where there was a folder for Cerebro, there was also a folder for "Franklin Richards" who is the (mutant?) son of Reed and Susan Richards of the Fantastic Four. Was Stan Lee in this one? I forgot to check out the extras. The next movie should be pretty good, if one of the main plots is an adaptation of the Phoenix saga. my only complaints were the missing Sabretooth and Toad. Especially Toad - he was my favorite from the first movie. It would have been especially cool to see a fight scene between Toad and Nightcrawler! |
I didn't notice a Stan Lee cameo....but did you see Dr. Hank McCoy on the TV? |
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Beast is on TV debating with Sebastian Shaw (of the Hellfire Club) Go here to see all the 'easter eggs' http://www.cinescape.com/0/editorial.asp?aff_id=0&this_cat=Movies&action=page&type_id=&cat_id=270338&obj_id=38527 |
I would be really, REALLY excited if the Hellfire Club was in the next movie. They, uh, r0x0r. Damn, now I want to run home and dig up all my old comics. My brother used to have this 4-volume set of these books that were basically encyclopedias of every Marvel character created up to that point (1990?). On each page was a picture of the character, all their stats, their bio, their storylines, which series they appeared in, etc. etc. I wonder if the books are still at home, or if my brother sold them. He sold his huge collection of Wolverine comics last year, the goof. |
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My brother collected the comics (Uncanny X-Men, New X-Men, Wolverine, X-Factor, ummmmm, various other titles -- some X-Men spinoffs -- that I didn't read...) and I read them. I myself bought and still own New X-Men #1-5, Defenders #16 (I think) and X-Men Unlimited #2 -- that's it. I used to read Darkhorse Comics' Madman series, too, but I don't know what I did with my issues. I was primarily a Magneto fan -- I love dark grey characters like him -- and if he wasn't involved in a storyline, I wasn't very interested. |
X-Men (Ok, New Mutants) made me love the Del Tha Funkee Homosapien's piece with J. Mascis on the Judgment Night sound track... '...like Kitty Pryde, city wide...' Haven't seen the movie yet. Was waiting for payday. |
Then there was the Uncanny X-Men, which had issues numbering in the hundreds when I started reading -- Antigone, this is what you're talking about, right? |
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Lately, I've gotten into Usagi Yojimbo, which is on e of the best written comics I've read. I've also started reading the Cerebus collections, whcih are also fantastic. And pretty much anything Warren Ellis does is gold. |
Sem, what do you know about the Age of Apocalypse saga? (Magneto heading the X-Men, having a baby with Rogue, all that stuff.) I've overheard fragments of conversation about it, but I haven't actually seen any of the issues involved and I'm very curious.... |
I tried going to the Wizard site (http://www.wizardworld.com) to see if last month's issue involved X-Men 2, but the site is down. :( |
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Spider, you might try looking for a trade paperback of the Age of Apocalypse, but I think it did span a couple titles. I'll check Wednesday when I get my weekly fix of sequential art. |
I saw the first X men movie just a few days earlier and went to bed thinking about mutants and had a nightmare about a mutant being stuck to the outside of the window (it was the blades on the window fan) and secretly decided I wanted to start reading the X men comics and when sem was at work started reading the book that he had that was in his office and, like all other comic books it gave me a headache and I could only read a few pages at a time before I just started skipping ahead and reading a few panels here and there and then reading backwards (which is how I read magazines) and so I don't think it's for me. |
I think I had a dream about mutants this morning -- very fuzzy, though. I read my (New) X-Men #1-5 last night, and there were a whole lot of panels I don't think I had ever read before. I must have just looked at the pictures much of the time. On the other hand....yesterday, I found a thread around here in which I discussed Par Lagerkvist's "The Dwarf," which I have no recollection of reading at all, so clearly my memory isn't to be trusted. |
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